uniQure Hemophilia B Deal With CSL Leaves M&A Fans Miffed
Dutch Group Gets $450m Upfront For Gene Therapy
Executive Summary
Observers have been expecting uniQure to be sold off as a whole but the Netherlands-based firm has chosen to sell just one asset - EtranaDez - and focus on advancing its Huntington’s disease gene therapy.
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